Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Basque exonyms

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The result was delete‎. ✗plicit 00:56, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Basque exonyms (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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Indiscriminate mostly unreferenced list of proper names, Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Other such articles have recently been deleted, see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/French exonyms. toweli (talk) 12:12, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Language, Geography, Lists, Europe, France, and Spain. toweli (talk) 12:12, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: Fails WP:INDISCRIMINATE and is consistent with similar decisions—I see no reason why so many exonym lists exist. Are any such articles notable? pluckyporo ^{(talk • contribs)} 09:41, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. There is a definition of exonyms given by the UN that means that such lists are not indiscriminate, but instead pass WP:LISTCRITERIA. By all means cull items that should not be there (such as toponyms that are the mere result of orthographic rules in different languages). But such lists themselves are encyclopedic. As for appealing to recent rulings, what's actually happened is that there has been a huge bunch of individual nominations, some closed very quickly, without any notification placed on the page most people interested in the topic would see: Talk:Endonym and exonym. OsFish (talk) 08:21, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  WP:LISTGLOSSARY provides that a list of words is encyclopedic only when the article provides an in-depth explanation for the significance of such a list (see, for example, List of English words containing Q not followed by U. I don't believe the list of Basque exonyms provides opportunity for such analysis. pluckyporo ^{(talk • contribs)} 04:54, 4 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  By that definition, a List of Basque words would also not be indiscriminate. —Tamfang (talk) 04:09, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Trim: A few names in the list are evidently not cognate to the respective endonyms, and I'd preserve these. Otherwise, delete as trivial; each language adapts foreign words to its own phonology and orthography, okay, we get it. —Tamfang (talk) 23:55, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, CycloneYoris ^talk! 01:25, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:24, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. The choice of places seems to be arbitrary. Why only cities? How was the set chosen, say, for Germany? Selection appears to be WP:OR. Expanding to a meaningful set (tens of thousand of names, a typical dictionary of place names run into hundreds on thousands) is impossible due to WP:NOTDICT, without it the value is unclear. --Викидим (talk) 05:19, 18 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - a list of translations is not encyclopedic content. If there was research into the linguistic and historical nature of basque exonyms then this article would be worth keeping but that is not even close to what it is

SJD Willoughby (talk) 21:26, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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